In a health crisis in Durango due to a fungus from an anesthetic drug
Durango suffers from a health crisis with the presence of fungal meningitiswhich accelerated the work of researchers and specialists, insofar as it was possible to determine that it was a anesthetic procedure which has been applied in hospitals and clinics individuals to women who have programmed the birth of their respective children.
Over the months, she manifested as aseptic meningitis, which triggered the alerts. Till date add nine deaths, 58 hospitalized patients, 300 suspected casesnine investigation files and four hospitals closed.
Lisbeth Yoselin23 years, received her baby on August 21 at the Hospital del Parque, and after five days started with headache and fever; Doctors first assured that it was accumulated milk, since it is common for images of this type to appear for this reason.
After some analysis, it was determined that it was a urinary tract infectionbut the discomfort continued, to the point that she could no longer support her son.
“The headache never left her.“, assures his mother on the outskirts of hospital 450, where 58 patients are treated with the same symptoms and with a treatment which does not evolve satisfactorily in some patients as the doctors would like.
Lisbeth Yoselin and her mother saw the news where the symptoms were similar to those she was presenting and on November 4, she went to the public hospital; from, his family keeps coming to pray and ask for his recovery.
On this date, it was when the authorities of the state health sector set up comprehensive care centers with neologists, infectiologists and psychologists, among other specialists, apply protocols to determine what caused this condition.
They determined it was aseptic meningitis. caused by a fungus an anesthetic drug and verification of clinics and hospitals has begun. Authorities have located four where this drug was used, nine investigation files were opened and the establishments were closed.
On the basis of interviews with anesthesiologists, a line of investigation was initiated indicating that it would probably be a batch of this contaminated drug or a batch of needles, which is why the commissions of Risk protection public toilets and the feds attended the ER and picked up the drugs.
UNIQUE IN THE WORLD
International experts are working in Durango to review the health protocols derived from the contingency caused by meningitis, to strengthen the care of patients as the state government has done since the beginning of this crisis.
“We are working with all our strength and human capital to combat it effectively,” said the director of epidemiology of the Federal Ministry of Health, Gabriel García Rodríguez.
This is an unprecedented situation in the world, which is why the federal and state authorities remain coordinated with the intention of collaborating as an operational tool to strengthen the work of the government led by Esteban Villegas Villarreal, in order to to find the best treatments for patients. . .
The Director of Epidemiology, in coordination with the Inter-Agency Command of the Health Sector and members of the State Cabinet, has carried out a detailed analysis of the behavior of this disease, with the aim of maintaining the search for more treatments. powerful and fight against this disease.
“We are working with all our might,” the federal official said, adding that everything humanly possible is being done to establish the causative agent of the disease and, with it, provide effective treatment; In addition, maternity and mental health situations are taken care of at the same time.
70% CHANCE OF RECOVERY
So far, nearly 300 patients who have undergone cesarean section or other type of surgery have been identified, but they did not detect that the drug was accompanied by the fungus fusarium solani, which generates various symptoms and reaches the brain. ; sometimes causes death.
Governor Esteban Villegas Villarreal expressed concern about this situation, for which he instructed to provide all care with hospitalization and medical supplies without sparing any cost.
The problem has centered on the city of Durango, but cases have arrived in the Laguna region, such as a patient who gave birth in the capital and returned to her place of origin, in Lerdo, and presented symptoms , so she immediately The treatment was applied at the IMSS in Torreón, Coahuila.
Meanwhile, Durango received a shipment of drugs via Insabi, to bolster the service and treatment of patients with aseptic meningitis caused by a fungus, Health Secretary Irasema Kondo Padilla announced.
The drug shipment was transferred by the National Guard, which included 2,000 doses of voriconazole, 6,500 of liposomal b-amphoreicin, and 10,000 doses of paracetamol injection.
These drugs in vitro kill the fungus, but the nervous system does not react in the same way to the drug provided to it and, in addition to the assignments of each patient, its effectiveness is different, which is why there are doctors for each of them. ‘between them. the 57 cases that are observed with the evolution of the treatment to adapt it and achieve the restoration of health.
Specialists consider the chances of recovery to be 70%.
HOPE IS IN FAITH
Every night at Hospital 450, where the patients are, a community prayer is held with the relatives of the more than 200 infected people, so that the recovery of their patients can be achieved; People came to this place to deliver food for free.
Additionally, the state DIF is providing food and nappies for the children of patients, while all funeral costs and psychological support for all involved have been paid for families who have lost loved ones to this reason.
THE OTHER CRISIS
The husbands of the patients have lost their income, because they have not been able to go to work and they accuse that there has been a lack of solidarity on the part of the employers, who have expressed themselves on social networks, where they demand that the chambers of commerce intervene in favor of these women, families so that they do not lose their jobs.
Hospitals and clinics have almost completely lost medical care to residents of Durango, saturating public services in this state capital.
So far, no patient has recovered 100 percent; however, one, who underwent a brainwashing procedure, shows significant improvement, so is being studied as an alternative.
In addition, it is not excluded during recovery that patients have sequelae that will need to be treated over time.
Source: El Heraldo De Mexico
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